Snob

Coal drawing on paper beige, 1932

Technique: Zeichnung-Schwarz-weiß
Size: 30 x 22 cm

CID: 174048
Collection: Schwendi KBuA

Frame-Passepartout-Front sign-dat-Back-handwriting note-untitled-Frame left side slightly damaged

According to the work calendar of Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann 1915-1942 drawn at Easter 1932 Page 38 - & quot; Charcoal Drawing of a Snob & quot;

Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann and Hermann Tiebert both studied at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe - Fridel was friends with Emmy, the later wife of Tiebert.

The Tieberts acquired a small farmhouse in Ried near Isny.

Again and again Fridel visited the friends in Isny. They skied together - see watercolor 101136. Fridel painted together with Hermann Tiebert - see charcoal drawings 174047 and 172048. Fridels drawing by Hermann: 172022.

The friendship became even closer after Fridel had married the Isny ​​manufacturer Arist Dethleff in 1931. A little later she also moved to Isny: Hermann became the sponsor of Ursula Dethleffs in 1933.

Both had later similar problems: both painted - long before the Nazis had seized power in Germany - their personal style. The "New Functionality" was the starting point for both of them. This initially corresponded to the preferences of the National Socialist artisans. & Nbsp; Both exhibited again and again in the House of Art. Both paid for it after 1945 a high price. Despite this, Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann became an important artist in the post-war period as part of the Sezession Oberschwaben-Bodensee, which she co-founded - see here details Works / Artists / SOB.

Today, the political problem in Western Europe is largely solved: the quality of art, not the political direction of artists, is important.